Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky News Digest
Friday, February 10,1995 Page 2
Rabin-Arafat meeting,
relations breaks down
EREZ JUNCTION, Gaza Strip —
The crisis in Israeli-Palestinian rela
tions deepened Thursday after their
leaders failed to agree on how to
expand Palestinian autonomy with
out endangering Israeli security.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
PLO chief Yasser Arafat did not re
solve any disputes during their 2 172
hour meeting Thursday at an Israel
PLO command post in northern Gaza.
Reflecting the tensions, the two
did not hold a joint news conference.
However, they agreed to meet again
next Thursday.
Rabin told Arafat he must rein in
Islamic militants before Israel will
talk about expanding Palestinian self
rule to the West Bank. Fifty-five Is
raelis have been killed by Palestinian
militants since October in a surge of
suicide bombings.
Rabin also refused Arafat’s de
mand that Israel lift a 19-day closure
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
imposed after a bombing attack last
month by Islamic militants that killed
21 Israelis.
A tense Arafat, speaking later at
his Gaza City office, complained that
Israel was turning the Palestinian
areas into a giant holding cell.
“If there is an Israeli wish for
political separation, then we welcome
it. But we will not welcome that they
lock us in Gaza and the West Bank
and hold the keys to the big prison,”
he said.
The Palestinians accused Rabin of
using security concerns as an excuse
not to honor an agreement to with
draw troops from the West Bank and
permit Palestinian elections.
“Security guarantees should be
given through the political process,
and not through procrastination,” said
Palestinian spokesman Yasser Abed
Rabbo. -
Under the Israel-PLO autonomy
accord, Israel troops should have
pulled out of West Bank towns by July
1994, in advance of Palestinian gen
eral elections. Delays in implement
ing autonomy pushed back the elec
tion date, then Israelis had second
thoughts following this fall’s attacks
by Palestinian militants.
Thursday’s summit rehashed the
arguments have bogged down the
negotiations for months.
“If Rabin doesn’t help Arafat in
proving to the Palestinians that peace
pays off, Arafat will not be able to
gain control over the opponents of
peace,” an editorial in the Israeli daily
Maariv said Thursday.
“But if Arafat does not succeed in
overcoming the terrorist organiza
tions, Rabin will not be able to help
him.”
Prior to the summit, Arafat or
dered the arrests of dozens of mili
tants and established a military court
to try those suspected of attacking
Israelis.
While the two leaders met, Pales
tinian police raided the Gaza City
headquarters of Islamic Jihad, the
radical group that carried out the
latest bomb attack. Police also de
tained three leaders of the Muslim
militant group Hamas.
Rabin said Thursday that Arafat
must do more, including disarming
his opponents. Negotiator Yossi
Sarid said Israel could not open the
border yet because of warnings that
Islamic militants planned attacks
marking the Feb. 25 anniversary of
the Hebron massacre of 29 Muslims
by a Jewish settler.
If Arafat intensifies his crackdown
on militants by next Thursday’s meet
ing with Rabin, “we will respond in
kind,” Sarid told Israel TV.
Disputed issues:
■ Arafat wants Israel to lift closure of the
West bank and Gaza Strip, enabling tens
of thousands of Palestinians access to
their «ob$ in Israel; Rabin says he won!
until Arafat is more successful in foiling
attacks against Israel
■ Arafat wants Israel to commit to a
timetable for troop withdrawal from West
Bank towns; Rabin wants Arafat to first
move decisively against Palestinian
militants, including disarming them.
■ Arafat wants to resume negotiations on
release of thousands of Palestinian
prisoners still held by Israel; Rabin has
rojoctod tills demand. .f
• Arafat wants Israel to stop all budding
in Jewish settlements in the West Bank *.
and Gaza; Rabid has said tiiat despite ^
his 1992 promise to freeze settlement
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several otherareas, $$
AP/Car) Fox
Bombing suspect captured
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Police
found a little surprise this week when
they arrested the man suspected of
mastermining the World Trade Cen
ter bombing: explosives in his bag,
hidden in toy cars.
“He was found with explosives ...
and chemicals used in making
bombs,” Interior Minister Nasirullah
Babar, who supervises Pakistan’s
police, said Thursday as he described
the arrest of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
Nabbed Tuesday in Pakistan,
Yousef was secretly whisked to the
United States in a U.S. government
plane. In New York on Thursday, he
pleaded innocent to 11 counts relat
ing to the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing of
the Manhattan landmark.
That attack on the world’s second
tallest building killed six people, in
jured more than 1,000 others, caused
$500 million in damage and intro
duced Americans to the fear of inter
national terrorism.
Clean-shaven and dapper in a blue
double-breasted suit, Yousef appeared
calm, and spoke fewer than 10 words
during his brief appearance before
U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan.
“I plead not guilty,” he said in En
glish, waving off an interpreter. He
told the judge he understood the in
dictment.
The most serious charges Yousef
faces are punishable by life in prison
without parole. Yousefwasbeingheld
without bond until his next court ap
pearance on Wednesday.
Authorities say Yousef, who came
to the United States in 1992, bought
and mixed the chemicals for the bombs
that exploded in a van parked under
World Trade Center
suspect captured
The man accused of masterminding
the World Trade Center bombing
was captured in Islamabad,
Pakistan on Tuesday and returned
to New York.
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Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
Age: 27 years
Accused of: Masterminding
the World Trade Center
bombing
Evidence: His fingerprints
found on two bomb-making
manuals and on containers
of bomb-making chemicals.
API Terry Kole, Brian Sipple
the 110-story twin towers. “He was under surveillance from
Yousef, who had been living with the time he arrived,” Babar told The
two other bombing suspects in Jersey Associated Press.
City, N.J., escaped the night of the The interior minister told the AP
bombmg, usmg an alias to fly to Iraq that Yousef was immediately handed
via Pakistan. His fingerprints were over to the Americans, who whisked
found on two bomb-making manuals him out of the country Tuesda
seized by authorities and on contain- J J
ers of bomb-making chemicals, au- “We turned him over to the Ameri
thorities say. cans and told them to take him out of
Last Sunday, Yousef arrived in ^ere’ ®a^ar sa'^
Pakistan on a flight from Bangkok, But he told the British Broadcast
Thailand, according to Babar, the ing Corp. that before being handed
interior minister. He was tailed by over to U.S. officials, Yousef was
plainclothes police for two days, then interrogated by Pakistani authorities
arrested Tuesday at a Holiday Inn. and admitted to being involved in the
Quayle won’t try
for presidential bid
WASHINGTON — Hard
pressed to attract the money and
talent necessary for a strong cam
paign, former Vice President Dan
Quayle abruptly reversed course
Thursday and said he would not
seek the 1996 Republican presi
dential nomination.
Quayle’s.decision came less than
three weeks after he vowed to cam
paign aggressively as a voice for
the conservative “unsilent major
ity” that he said was appalled at the
decline of the family and the lib
eral bent of the social welfare sys
tem.
In a statement, Quayle said he
was confident he could have waged
a winning campaign if he had sub
jected himself to a grueling fund
raising schedule this year. “How
ever, we chose to put our family
first and to forego the disruption to
our lives that a third straight na
tional campaign would create,” he
said.
Advisers, associates and Repub
lican operatives, however, said it
became clear as Quayle geared up
to run that the fund-raising out
look was bleak, and that he also
was having a hard time convincing
seasoned campaign operatives to
sign on. A new, front-loaded GOP
primary calendar has put a pre
mium on early fund-raising, a dif
ficult process cited by several oth
ers who recently bowed out, in
cluding fellow Bush administra
tion alumni Jack Kemp and Dick
Cheney.
Quayle associates said recent
health problems were not a factor;
Quayle was hospitalized recently
for blood clots and then to have his
appendix removed because of a
benign tumor. “He is completely
recovered,” said Quayle adviser
Mark Goodin.
“He was extremely excited and
fired up about running a cam
paign,” said Goodin. “But the fi
nancial aspect of it threw a bucket
of cold water on his enthusiasm.”
The decision leaves three defi
nite Republican candidates: Sen
ate Majority Leader Bob Dole of
Kansas, Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas
and former Gov. Lamar Alexander
of Tennessee. A handful of others
are contemplating runs, including
Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana
and Arlen Specter of Pennsylva
nia, as well as 1992 Bush primary
challenger Patrick Buchanan. A
few GOP governors and California
Rep. Bob Doman also are mulling
the race.
For all his image problems in
the electorate at large, Quayle was
a favorite of cultural and religious
conservatives who are active in
GOP affairs and particularly influ
ential in several early primary
states. He is scheduled to speak
Saturday night to a major conser
vative gathering in Washington.
News... __—
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Former Senator Fulbright dies at 89
WASHINGTON — Former Sen. J. William Fulbright, whose
criticism of America’s “arrogance of power” in Vietnam gave intellec
tual substance to the anti-war movement, died Thursday at 89.
Fulbright was an early mentor to Bill Clinton, who worked as clerk
in his Senate office while a student at Georgetown University and who,
years later, awarded him the nation’s highest civilian honor, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
And Fulbright was the architect of the Fulbright scholarships, an
international exchange program in which tens of thousands of students
and teachers from more than 120 countries have gone abroad to study.
Because of it, he was particularly revered in Japan. The Arkansas
Democrat was one ofthe few American legislators of this century whose
name was known around the world.
Fulbright died of a stroke in his Washington home near the embassies
of-Massachusetts Avenue.
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fulbright
presided over televised hearings in 1966 and 1967. The hearings helped
turn the country against the war.
While others said the fall of Vietnam would threaten U.S. security,
Fulbright said the war had choked domestic reform and was “turning
the Great Society into a sick society.”
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